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# סְפָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5610

**enumeration** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

enumeration [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5610/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְפָר: enumeration, census [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5610/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] enumeration, census (late; on format. cf. LagBN 175);—abs. ס׳, sq. אֲשֶׁר as acc. cogn. with סָפַר 2 Ch 2:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: census (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 2:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.2.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.2.16/#tree)

וַיִּסְפֹּ֣ר שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה כָּל־הָאֲנָשִׁ֤ים הַגֵּירִים֙ אֲשֶׁר֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אַחֲרֵ֣י הַסְּפָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר סְפָרָ֖ם דָּוִ֣יד אָבִ֑יו וַיִּמָּצְא֗וּ מֵאָ֤ה וַחֲמִשִּׁים֙ אֶ֔לֶף וּשְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֖ים וְשֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and he.counted Solomon all the people the sojourners who \[were\].in the.land of.Israel after the census which he had.counted.them David father his and they.were.found one.hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand(s) and six hundred(s)

*JPS 1917:* And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5610.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5610/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).